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Identity, Ideology and the Internet​​​​​​​

Date: Friday, May 2, 2025
Location: 205 Lockwood
Time: 12 to 1:15 p.m. Lunch will be provided at 12 p.m. Session begins at 12:15 p.m.   

Kenneth Joseph PhD.

Kenneth Joseph, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the associate director for AI and society at the Institute for AI and Data Science at the University at Buffalo. 

Talk Abstract: In this talk, Joseph will share some of his past research and current thinking on how people—both implicitly and explicitly—present themselves and their beliefs on social media. He'll focus on a line of work that examines how individuals construct their identities in Twitter/X bios, how and when people express political beliefs online and what we can (and can't) learn about the complex, dynamic relationship between social identity and political attitudes from social media data.